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Annunciation Catholic Church shooting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annunciati...h_shooting
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Disturbing social media content of Minneapolis school shooter pointing to motive ... https://youtu.be/lCmXGMt1brc

Another M to "F" "transgender" youth with serious psychiatric problems.

Wonder how many CIS gendered male shooters there are?

Wonder what the percentage of each population it is?

If he never underwent a medical transition, then the later regret shouldn't have been as severe as with those who did. Easily remedied, compared to any others who go down that road of feeling that it was an error in judgment.
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UNDERCURRENTS
https://youtu.be/7hsx-Iai3kc

VIDEO EXCERPTS: Westman applied to change his birth name from Robert to Robin in Dakota County, Minnesota when he was 17 years old. According to court documents, that name change was granted in January 2020. The petition added that Westman quote "identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification".

In a manifesto that was posted on YouTube by Westman, before the shooting, you can see Westman writing out, "I don't want to dress girly all the time, but I guess sometimes I really like it. I know I am not a woman, but I definitely don't feel like a man."

And then also the quote: "I wish I never brainwashed myself. I only kept the long hair because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans. I wish I never brainwashed myself."

[...] So this is I would say is a clear cut case of gender dysphoria. Did Westman medically transition? It doesn't appear to be the case at this point.

[...] Westman's politics were completely all over the map in the video. They're absolutely wild. Shows a picture of Jesus Christ at the head of a [gun] target at one point.

[...] There's some stuff on it about Israel. It's just a complete mess of different messages. Names of other mass shooters written on the gun. [...] it's a really sad video to watch. Someone that clearly needed help...

Minneapolis school shooting exposes glaring media hypocrisy ... https://youtu.be/7hsx-Iai3kc

So you're going to mock thought and prayers for victims who were literally praying.
Apparently you don't understand how that also mocks the victims... or maybe that's your intent.

One of the problems with atheists is that they imagine prayer as if it was magic. Prayer as they conceive it is supposed to bring about physical/tangible results so as to make action unnecessary.

In real life, I don't think that a vast majority of Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus or Buddhists (who might call prayer 'meditation' or 'mindfulness') think that prayer replaces physical action. Maybe a few do, but most don't resemble the atheist caricature at all.

I think that prayer is more about coming to terms with things emotionally.

At least for most Christians, prayer is more akin to the AA serenity prayer.
Unless you believe in prosperity gospel (name it and claim it), prayer is about asking for strength, wisdom, etc. to accomplish or deal with something yourself or asking to similarly bolster someone else.
Most Christians believe that you have to, at least, meet God halfway, with your own effort.

This notion that "thoughts and prayers" are opposed to "doing something" is a false dichotomy... where most rational people realize that you can hold more than one thought at the same time.

In this case, they asked governor Tim Walz for state funding to help protect Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc. private/independent schools, only a few weeks after the Covenant School shooting (also by a transgender).

In a resurfaced letter to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the head of the Minnesota Catholic Conference expressed that Catholic and other nonpublic schools were in "urgent and critical need" of security improvements, saying, "Our schools are under attack."

The plea went unheeded, and two years later, the concerns raised by Catholic leaders materialized when a gunman opened fire on students of a Minneapolis Catholic school while they were attending Mass, leaving two dead and 17 injured.

The letter was first reported on by the Daily Wire and was sent by Minnesota Catholic Conference Executive Director Jason Adkins and Tim Benz, president of the private school advocacy group MINNDEPENDENT. The letter was sent on April 14, 2023, and is still publicly available on the Minnesota Catholic Conference’s website.
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The leaders expressed serious concern that the 72,000 students enrolled in independent, Catholic, Jewish, Christian and Muslim schools in Minnesota could be in danger due to nonpublic schools being excluded from the $50 million Building and Cyber Security Grant Program and the state’s Safe Schools Program, which provides emergency response training, security upgrades, mental health services and other security measures.

The leaders said they were especially concerned given "the most recent, and continuing attacks, on our schools in this country and in our state."
- https://www.foxnews.com/politics/unearth...ool-safety

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AHfgzAgjJzQ

In this context the thoughts and prayers cliche has become synonymous with legislative inaction. The consistent refusal to ban assault weapons or require background checks. That's what the point of the joke is. And that will always be its point until some sort of gun control legislative action is taken.